XENOPHOBIA: Violence breaks out as Alexandra Dudula Movement members target foreign informal traders

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Police and other law enforcement members remain on high alert in Alexandra after clashes between migrant street vendors and Alexandra Dudula Movement members on Monday.

The police said one South African and three Zimbabweans were injured during clashes between street vendors and members of the Alexandra Dudula Movement on Monday.on Monday that migrant business owners had fought members of the movement.

Malatjie said the group of foreign nationals started throwing stones at them “unprovoked”. She claimed they were armed with sticks and guns. A large group of members of the Alexandra Dudula Movement protested against the presence of foreign businesses near the Pan Africa Shopping Centre on Monday and some businesses in the vicinity were forced to shut down.Members of the Alexandra Dudula Movement have vowed to force out migrant business owners in Alexandra and say they want the businesses to be taken over by South Africans.

Several men were seen hurriedly throwing a few possessions in bags, locking their shacks and leaving when they saw the Operation Dudula members approaching. Most ran to a nearby hill and monitored the situation from there.

 

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You forgot the word 'ilegal'

Xenophobia - it's nice that we can distinguish via the English language the difference between this and racism... Call a spade a shovel, it still digs the same hole.

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